Machine for manufacturing wire fabrics



Patented Mar'.l 6, 1888.A

vP. HAINSWORTH. MACHINE PON .MANUFACTURING WINE FABNIGS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FREDERICK HAINSWORTH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING WIRE FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,013, dated March 6, 1888.

Application filed September 22, 1887. Serial No. 250,385. (No model.)

I,invented certain new and useful Improvements in4 Machines for Manufacturing Vire Mattress Fabric, and at the same time to introduce a straight wire through the coils, of which thev following is a specification.

The nature and object of this invention are to produce a machine that Will accomplish the features above stated, which is constructed as will hereinafter appear.

Figure lis an end view. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a detail of the fabric.

This invention is designed to manufacture the fabric set forth in my pending application, No. 247,649.

I use the well-known ceiling device which consists of a spindle, A, with a coiled groove around it and working in the jacket B. The wire is fed to this spindle through feeding-tube C and guide-tube D, the wire being driven through bythe push-wheelsEand Fand coming out in coils T. Through the center of the spindle'A, I form a hole, G. Through this hole isinserted the wireH, which is urged or pushed through the hole G by the push-Wheels I and K, located immediately at the rear of the spindle A. At the side of each push-wheel is a cog-wheel, arranged in sets of two of equal size, and those of the same size meshing into each other. Thus E and F mesh into each other and so do I and K. J is the driving-shaft, on which is the pulley L. The push-wheel E and its attendant cog-wheel O are located on this driving-shaft. The cog-wheels attendant to push-wheels I and K are shown at l? and Q, Fig. 1. The push-wheel I has a common shaft, R, with push-wheel F. The various pushwheels and cog-wheels are placed in a proper frame and housings.

Motion is communicated to drive-wheel L, thence to the cog and drive wheels O and E,

thence to the drive and cog wheels F and V, which push the wire S through the jacket B and through grooves on spindle A and form the coil. At the same time motion is communicated to the cog and push wheels I, K, P, and @which drive the straight wire through the hole G in spindle A. As fast as the coiled wire T is delivered from spindle A, it interlocks at each revolution with a coiled wire already formed. (See Fig. 3.) Also at the same time and simultaneously with this forming of the coil the straight wire H is fed or pushed through these coils, so that each coil at its point of interlocking with its neighbor embraces the straight wire H. (See Fig. 3.) The last coil always has a straight wire in it. The succeeding coil as it interloeks with the preceding coil reaches far enough into this preceding one at. each revolution to embrace the straight wire. Thus the two coils simultaneously interlock each other and embrace the straight wire. The straight wire H must be delivered through the spindle A no faster than the coiled wire is delivered from the spindle. This is accomplished by making the pushwheels I and K proportionately smaller than the push-Wheels F and E, which will make them about two-thirds smaller, as the pushwheels E and F have to push about three times more wire in length than the push-wheels I and K.

I elaiml. A ceiling device provided with a hole through the length of the spindle, as and for the purpose shown.

2. In combination with a ceiling device provided with a hole through the length of the spindle, the push-wheels I and K, as and for the purpose shown.A

FREDERICK HAINSWORTH.

Witnesses:

Jas. A. CowLEs, OHAs. B, DAELTNG. 

